Eleven

Akira looks at the time. It is now 8AM, "That's odd, by now the portal should be closing." The green beam is not getting smaller indicating that it will soon close.

"Is that really what you want?" Akali who has spent the past 2 hours with her father catching up asks, she is enjoying the time Jet is not around and the fact that her father is not focusing on work right now. It is to her benefit that the portal does not close.

Akira looks at his daughter, "No, it is not what I want," her question caught him off guard, "But there is only so much energy Jet can handle. I worry, he is allowing pure energy to pass through his body, and after some, the energy will start breaking down his physical body and he will end up dead."

"He has Milton to guide him. He will be alright." Akali smiles, she has full confidence in Milton.

Akira nods, "Yes, that's the only thing that is stopping me from going to that island and hovering over my sons shoulder." He forces himself to remain in his seat, shifting his weight, to press into it, so he does not stand up and take a boat to the island.

"Dad, why do you coddle him so much?" Akali asks the question she has been dying to ask for so long.

"After your mother and I had your sister Amali, we had 3 miscarriages before I finally had Jet. The losses, I told myself didn't affect me, but it did. I am so afraid of losing him," Akira looks at his daughter, his face expressing his fears and loss, his eyes look heavy and tired, his lips thinning into a false smile that does not last, his brows furrowing in multiple emotions, "He is the next head of the family. Nothing gave me sleepless nights like the thought of an outsider taking over this family and the Stone last name ending because of me." Akira answers the questions, he brushes his daughters cheek, "It doesn't mean I love you less, I know it may feel like that, but it is not so."

Akali nods, "I know that, but I wish you'd be my dad more often. I barely see you."

Akira nods, "I assure you Jet now has friends that I trust. He won't have time for me. It will be just you and Amali getting my attention from now on."

Akali smiles, "Good. I like the sound of that." Her eyes widen watching the Stone on the fountain begin to Crack, "Wow, it's cracking, dad."

Akira nods, "I see it, but a Crack means nothing. It will not fix the issue of our powerlessness."

"The power will slip through the cracks. It's better than nothing." Akali nudges him, "Come on, it's just the two of us, you're allowed to be emotional in front of your daughter."

Akira smiles, "I don't want to get my hopes up. With the disappointing things unraveling around me. I expect Jet to come back with bad news, I am just expecting more and more bad news these days."

Akali gives him a hug, "You won't lose anything you worked for. I am here, Amali is here, and even Jet is fighting in his own way. Your family is all you need."

Akira looks at the cracks on the fountain spreading. It is exactly what is happening to his heart, "I trust you."

Akali smiles pleased to hear her father's words, unaware he meant it for Jet.

Akira closes his eyes sensing the power that is seeping through the cracks. It's been so long since he felt it, "I need to lie down for a bit. I haven't slept well in a while. Today, maybe the bit of power we're getting can help with that."

Akali shakes her head, "No, watch the Essence mixture with me. Let's see what Jet is bringing to the table."

Akira smiles, "Hurry up and call your sister than. I don't want her to miss this."

Amali walks in, "I rushed over as soon as I felt the power." She sits next to her father, "This is going to be interesting."

Akira laughs, "I doubt there is anything that will shock me."

"No spoilers, this a first for us." Amali giggles.

A white light shines above the Stone Lotus and worsens the cracks. The green beam slowly begins to close in, indicating it will soon close.

Akira sighs disappointed. It will require more power and a lot of time for the Lotus to be free from the Stone curse and send power to the family freely.

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Jet opens his eyes and looks at the portal closing. He touches his crown to check if it is still on his head, and closes his eyes connecting to everyone, one at a time.

Milton returns to the magic circle and sits down. He feels a wave of White essence spreading through the entire island.

From Jet's view the entire island has changed colour to Snow white. There is no other colour, from the highest mountain to the beach, and any water that touches the island changes colour.

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Akira with his daughters leaning on him looks at the beam of light stopping and a white Lotus forms in mid air and absorbs into the Stone Lotus, it makes the cracks worse, but it makes no difference, the stone around the Lotus must completely fall off to restore the Stone family connection to the White Lotus force.

"Oh, was that Milton?" Amali asks.

"Yes." Akira responds with a blank expression on his face. He would rather be sleeping in bed.

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Bridget inside the Pearl comes out. Her green tail changing colour to a blue tail, it grows bigger and her hair grows to lower back length and changes to a dark green colour that gives the illusion of black when in the dark.

Luna is pulled into the Pearl, her necklace glowing, the inside of the Pearl turning into literal out of space, where there is a Nebula to her left and directly in front of her is a massive blue moon. She is not given time to process or understanding what is happening around her. Suddenly, a beam of Blue light strikes her body, when she cannot handle the energy it reflects to Jet, and from there spreads out to everyone else in the same way the Green Beam of light did.

Jet gasps shocked by the sudden burst of overwhelming power. It physically popped inside of him, the essence veins inside his body burst all at once. Jet's body tightens up and he collapses, bleeding seeping from his ears, eyes, and nose. The power continues to flow and spreads through the magic circle, that sends power directly to his father's house.

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Akira in the room looks at the sudden burst of Blue Energy, "What is this?" He stands up confusing his daughters. Some of the stones fell off due to the violent impact of the beam

"I thought nothing could surprise you." Akali smirks, feeling a sense of accomplishment in seeing the confusion on her father's face.

"I was wrong." Akira looks at the foreign energy shattering the stones on the fountain rapidly destroying them until the Stones completely fall off and for the first time in a while he can see the Lotus fountain.

It is made of Gold, with a White Lotus flower that is losing its petals, the roots at the very bottom of the fountain are withering, and with no water in the fountain the gold is starting to rust and lose its quality.

Akira senses the burst of power all over his body, the Pearls healing energy is repairing the damaged Lotus flower, but it is not strong enough.

"Do you feel that?" Amali looks at essence veins forming under her skin.

"I can even see it." Akali surprised by the power gasps, "Essence veins? He has connected to them."

"And you said he would fail." Amali looks at her sister and realizes her joke was not well recieved, "You have no sense of humor." She steps away from her sister, the moment was ruined.

~~~~

Jet lying unconscious twitches, the power from the Pearl is healing him. His essence veins reforming, stronger and thicker than before.

Axel who is returned to his magic circle opens his eyes, the healing power of the Pearl putting him to sleep again. His magic circle glows for the first time. Resulting in Jet's body speed healing.

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At Akira's house, the Lotus is destroyed by the speed force lightning and static electricity. A raging lightning storm shattered the rusted fountain. Set the roots on fire and scattered the flower petals.

"Is that supposed to happen?" Amali confused when the power she was feeling instantly stopped.

"If the power is no longer coming to us, where is it going now?" Akali asks her father concerned, "Because clearly the power is going somewhere."

"The power is going to the rest of the house, this is not the only room with power, maybe it is a good thing. We have all those luminous Pearls in the treasure room that are out of power, this is enough to replenish them." Amala says.

"Yes the energy will flow through the house," Akira's worry worsens, the only reason this could happen is if Jet is unconscious, "Something must be wrong." Akira looks at wild power getting under control.

"What now?" Akali who has concluded Jet's mission is a failure, she has decided after her father's response she will demand they go get Jet, and bring him back as a failure, so she can hold it against him for his entire life.

"Things are stable at the moment. Hopefully 2 hours from now the fountain will be repaired." Akira exhales in relief. His heart nearly burst a second ago.

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Milton is meditating keeping the flow of energy steady, he senses Jack and calls him back.

Jack in the Volcano wakes up and flies out. He makes his way towards the portal that just opened and flies around the island.

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Akira looks at the fountain that was halfway rebuilt bursting into flames and turning into ashes.

"No!! What is happening!!" Akali loses her temper. She was just talking about how quickly the fountain is rebuilding itself, and now it's a pile of ash

Akira's eyes widen in fear as the ashes turn into a Phoenix, "Phoenix Force? Who went there and made it back alive?" He can only hope they made it back alive.

Amali looks at the White Phoenix, "Where is the fountain?" She stands next to her father and takes his hand.

Akira collapses after a sudden burst of energy, burst his essence veins just like it did with Jet.

Akali gasps and stands still frozen. The situation escalated too quickly, randomly, and she has no idea what to do. She cannot even turn her head to look at her father.

Amali screams and runs upstairs and calls Helia's father in a panic, her words not making sense, but at least she cried out one useful word in the end, "Help!!"

Akali hears Amali's footsteps and squats down taking her father's hand, "Dad?" She notices white veins flowing all over his body. She glares at the Phoenix to blame it, but it flies in Amali's direction, "Amali!! Who did you call?"

"Drago!!" Amali runs to open the front Gate.

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Helia in the Dragon Force wakes up when the black flames turn blue, he gasps after finally overpowering the dark force he was fighting in his dream.

The blue flames absorb into his body, all at once he shifts into a Dragon and gets relocated to space where Luna is screaming for help.

The energy is starting to break down her physical body.

Helia floats between Luna and the Blue Moon beam. The beam is nothing for him. His dragon form is large and wounded, it needs a lot of energy to heal.

Luna's body returns to the Pearl. Inside the Pearl the excess power Luna can't contain is used to repair her damaged body. She has an out of body experience and watches her physical body turning to energy and than nothingness.

Her ethereal body begins to glow, and her body is reformed. Her chest is now different, before she had larger breasts for her age, and broad shoulders from always swimming, now she has feminine shoulders and rounded perky breasts covered in a white halter neck bra that is covered in transparent crystal scales.

Her waist line reshapes into an hour glass figure as though she is wearing a corset. Her legs are covered in a white skirt. After the changes Luna falls unconscious and the energy flows from her feet to her head.

A white staff is formed and a floating Blue moon sits on it. The staff absorbs into the necklace. The Pearl glowing brighter and brighter from the intense energy creating more Pearls.

Bridget smiles playing around dodging Pearls.

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Rudy who is barely at the giants knees notices his growth rate increasing. It is nothing drastic, but at least now the giants are looking down and noticing him. He has been standing in the same spot growing. He wishes something else would happen, he is now tired of standing.

He looks up and Helia just flew past him as a Dragon. He just knew it was Helia. He still cannot move yet, "Drago!" He calls out, but it is clear Helia didn't hear him.

Helia sensing something is wrong with Jet flies around trying to find a way back, he ends up falling out of the sky when the Phoenix flame flows through his body.

Jet wakes up when the Phoenix power flows through him and looks at Jack by his side, "What happened?"

Jack looks at the Phoenix on his shoulder, "I don't know, but I hope it's nothing serious."